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UNITED STATES PATENT rricn.

GEORGE A. RAMSEYER, OF DOBBS FERRY, NEW YORK.

MUSIC-STOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,443, dated September 1, 1885.

' Application filed September 26, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. RAMSEYER, of Dobbs Ferry, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Music-Stool. of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invent-ion consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a plan View of my new and improved music stool, and Fig. 2 is aside elevation of the same, showing the back raised in full lines and folded in dotted lines.

The standard A, rod B, and seat 0 may be of the ordinary or of any approved construction.

D is the back of the stool, composed of the side pieces, art, and cross-piece b, and pivoted to the seat 0 by the pins or bolts 0 0, so that the back may be raised to the position shown in full lines, Figs. 1 and 2, and tipped down to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. When raised to the upright position, the back D is supported by the shoulders (I d of the side pieces, a, resting upon the pins 6 0. By preference the shoulders (Z are slotted, as shown at d, to receive the pins 0 e, and these slots are made of considerable length, and the pins 6 care screw-threaded, so that the pitch of the back may be varied and by screwing in the pins held at any desired position. In this instance the pivot-pins c c are also screw-threaded, and, like the pins e, enter screw-threaded openings made in the seat 0, so that the wear of the side pieces, (1, upon the pins may be taken up and the back always kept firm, but plain pivot-pins or bolts may be used for the back, if desired.

The cross-piece b is pivoted between the ends of side pieces, a, upon the pins ff, so that it will adjust itself to the back of the occupant of the stool, and these pinsf, in this instance, are screw-threaded, and enter screwthreaded openings in the ends of the cross-- piece 7), so that the crosspiece may be held at any desired position or slant.

Constructed as described, the stool may be used with or without the back D, and by folding the back D down as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 it in no manner interferes with the ordinary use of the stool, and when so folded the stoolnnay be packed in small space for shipment.

Having thus-described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a music-stool, of the side pieces, a, pivoted to the stool-seat at their lower forward corners, and provided at their rear lower corners with shoulders, as at d, pins e in the stool-seat for the shoulders to engage, and a backrest connecting the slde pieces, a, at a point slightly greater from the pivots of the side pieces than the distance of the pivots of the side pieces from front edge of the stool whereby when swung forward the said side pieces will fold below the stoolseat out of the way, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a music-stool, of the side pieces, a, pins 0, pivoting said side pieces to the stool-seat at their forward lower corners, the slots d in the rear lower corners, screw-pins e, passing through the said slots into the stool-seat, and the cross-piece b, pivoted between the upper ends of the side pieces to clear the front edge of the seat when folded, whereby the angle of the side pieces may be varied, the cross-piece adjusted accordingly, and the said side pieces and crosspieces folded below the seat, as set forth.

3. A back for stools, consisting of the side pieces, a, provided at the forward rear corners of their lower ends with pivot-holes and slots (1', respectively, and with a pivoted crosspiece, 1), near the upper ends of said side pieces, substantially as set forth.

GEORGE A. RAMSEYER.

Witnesses:

H. A. WEs'r, O. Snnowioic. 

